King Lear

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Characters
• Three daughters, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia
• Earl of Gloucester’s illegitimate son Edmund, legitimate son, Edgar.
• Regan’s husband Cornwall
• Goneril’s husband Albany
• Oswald servant of Goneril
• Main events
• Edgar disguises himself as a crazy beggar and calls himself “Poor Tom.”
• Edmund apparently becomes romantically entangled with both Regan
and Goneril
• Gloucester tries to commit suicide, but Edgar saves him by pulling the
strange trick of leading him off an imaginary cliff.
• Edmund defeats Cordelia’s French army
• Climax
• Edgar duels with and kills Edmund
• death of Gloucester; Goneril poisons Regan out
of jealousy over Edmund and then kills herself
when her treachery is revealed to Albany
• Cordelia dies at prison
• Lear dies out of grief at Cordelia’s passing.
• Left out: Albany, Edgar, and the elderly Kent
Quotes
• How, nothing will come of nothing. (Lear)
• O, thou’lt come no more,
Never never never never never. (Lear to
Cordelia’s dead body)
• How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
Macbeth
• 1606, England
• 5 acts
• Main events
• Macbeth’s murder of Duncan in Act 2
• Bloody dagger in air
• Banquo Ghost
• Witches Prophecies
Macbeth
• Characters
• Macbeth, general
• Lady Macbeth
• 3 witches
• Banquo, general
• King Duncan, Scottish king
• Macduff scottish nobleman
• Malcolm, duncan son
• Minor
• Hecate
• Fleance , son of Banquo
• Lennox
• Ross
Quotes
• To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come,
come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done
cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed. (5.1) (lady macbeth after
going insane)
• Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air. act 1
• Unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!
• Is this a dagger which I see before me
The handle toward my hand?
• Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Remorse
Hamlet
• Setting: Denmark
• Total acts: 5
• Published in 1603
• Highlights Hamlet’s inner battle, and political conflict
• Delayed revenge
• Important events
• Ophelia dies of drowning
• Gertrude dies after drinking poisoned drink from goblet
• Soliloquies of Hamlet
Hamlet
• Character list
• Hamlet, prince of Denmark
• Claudius, The King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist.
• Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to
Claudius.
• Polonius, The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court, father of Laertes and
Ophelia.
• Ophelia, Polonius daughter
• Laertes, Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother
• Ghost, hamlet’s father
• Horatio Hamlet’s close friend,
• Fortinbras The young Prince of Norway, whose father the king (also named
Fortinbras) was killed by Hamlet’s father
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern former friends of hamlet
Quotes
• I have heard of your paintings well enough. God
hath given you one face and you make yourselves
another […] It hath made me mad.
• To be or not to be—that is the question (Hamlet)
• The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King
• O God, God,
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
• There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t. (Polonious
to Hamlet)
• Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. (polonious)
Othello
• Published in 1603
• 5 acts
• Story of African general in venetian army
• Themes of betrayal, racism and jealousy
• Outsider in white society, Christian moor
Character list
• Othello
• Protagonist, Christian moor, general of venetian army
• Desdemona
• Daughter of venetian senator, Brabantio, wife of Othello
• Iago
• Othello’s ensign, antagonist, 28 years
• Cassio
• Othello’s lieutenant, used by Iago to destroy Othello
• Emilia
• Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s attendant, reveals truth to
Othello about handkerchief
• Brabantio
• Desdemona’s father, venetian senator
• Roderigo
• A jealous suitor of Desdemona, agree to help Iago kill Cassio
• Montano
• The governor of Cyprus before Othello.
• Bianca
• A courtesan, or prostitute, in Cyprus
• Clown
• Othello’s servant.
Quotes
• How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know’st we work by wit and not by witchcraft,
And wit depends on dilatory time. (II.iii.) Iago to
Roderigo (lesson of patience)
Quote 2
• Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. (III.iii.) Iago to Othello
• Quote 3
• But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself. (III.iv.) Emilia to Desdemona
Quote 4
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. (III.iii.) soliloquy of Iago (Planting of
handkerchief)

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